[cairo] postscript Error: /rangecheck in --xyshow--

[Tamas K Papp]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 06:22:14PM +1030, Adrian Johnson wrote:
> Tamas K Papp wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > gv/evince chokes an a PS file generated by cairo, with the following error message:
> 
> This problem was fixed last November. The cairo 1.4.14 stable release
> includes the fix. The cairo 1.5.4 or later development snapshots include
> the fix.
> 
> > Any help would be appreciated.  I am using the 1.4.14-1 version of the
> > libcairo2 Debian package.
> 
> The simple.ps that you attached contains the following header.
> 
>   %!PS-Adobe-3.0
>   %%Creator: cairo 1.5.1 (http://cairographics.org)
>   %%CreationDate: Thu Jan 24 22:42:17 2008
>   %%Pages: 1
>   %%BoundingBox: 0 0 300 300
> 
> It looks like you are linking with an old development version of libcairo.

Thanks Adrian,

Indeed I had an old development copy in /usr/local.  Sorry for not
thinking about that, the problem is fixed now that I have removed it.

Thanks,

Tamas